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2012-11-03 20:07:00 |
When I had a cheap UPS with a low run-time I was always tempted to buy a large deep cycle gel cell and wire it externally, I just wasn't sure if the electronics would handle it. I also wondered about building my own with a sine wave inverter, SLA charger, and SLA battery, but it just works out too much and isn't very tidy. If I lived somewhere with unreliable power I would probably go that way but in Hamilton where I am I've been in the same house for 13 years and had unexpected power cuts 3 times total, so when my UPS died I didn't replace it. Personally I think the most likely problem resulting from a power cut is data corruption and you don't need a UPS to protect from that. The odds of hardware damage while possible are fairly small in my opinion. |
dugimodo (138) |